Los Angeles Contemporary Archive

09/08/2022

Thank you Los Angeles Archivists Collective and for speaking to artists Hailey Loman and Shevaun Wright in the "Art" Issue of Acid-Free Magazine.

The interview discusses Los Angeles Contemporary Archive’s acquisition of the Common Field Collection and the possibilities and limitations of transparency in an art world bound up in philanthropy.

Edited and advised Zach Whitworth

Acid Free speaks with Hailey Loman of the Los Angeles Contemporary Archive and Shevaun Wright, an artist and lawyer, about the Common Field Archive and the possibilities and limitations of radical transparency in an art world bound up in philanthropy.

12/15/2021

¸¸„•🍷~°”Worthy Wine Works˜”°~🍷•„¸

Why is art archiving worthy work? The value of small-scale art archives, unlike a bottle of wine, is not always simply captured in a number. What makes our work as archivists worthy of support is the efforts we put toward protecting and preserving what makes life meaningful. Like wine's place at the holiday dinner table, art archives aim to strengthen the bonds that bring and keep people together, enriching life in the process.

https://worthywineworks.com/

Worthy Wine Works is a limited edition natural wine fundraiser. Twelve artists— Cauleen Smith, Mario Ayala, Rodrigo Valenzuela, Kang Seung Lee, Marisa Takal, Heilbron, Zoel Cusmus Laffa, Lauren Quinn, Lauren Satlowski, Cassi Namoda, Nick Sethi, and Dave Muller—designed wine labels for LACA, paired with twelve unique natural wines, all produced in Central California.

This collaborative project between the archive, the artists, and the vintner inspires us to create connections between small edition books, art ephemera, and small batch natural wines.

With a purchase of single or multiple limited edition natural wines, you support future LACA programming and new collections in 2022.

Thank you R. O’Neill Latta Fermentory and our friends at Psychic Wines. Photography Ian Byers-Gamber, Booklet design Troy Curtis Kreiner, Web Joy | Jade

02/15/2021

✨🎵 21 Minute Mix🎵✨
🎵 TONIGHT LIVE AT 8PM PST 🎵

Asiatica (Los Angeles)
Bradford Bailey (London)
Ekstra Bonus (Los Angeles)
Jazzy Romero (Los Angeles)
Lizette Hernández (Los Angeles)
mediopicky (Santo Domingo)
Niko Chodor (Los Angeles)
Prismess Beam (Los Angeles)
T-Kay San Juan (Los Angeles)
v1fro (Buenos Aires)

01/15/2021

~RSVP~

LACA & Commonwealth and Council INVITE TO AN ART ARCHIVE CASE STUDY, A TOUR AND CONVERSATION SURROUNDING THE EXHIBITION, BOX (A PROPOSITION FOR TEN YEARS). WITH ARTISTS PATRICIA FERNANDEZ AND HAILEY LOMAN, WITH CURATOR AND ARCHIVISTS DORIS CHON AND MAITE MUÑOZ.

THIS IS AN ONLINE EVENT.

Sunday 1pm PST, January 17, 2021

12/08/2020

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT:

WATCH SAIDIYA HARTMAN UCSD VISUAL ARTS GUEST LECTURE 😍

Saidiya Hartman is the author of Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments, Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route, and Scenes of Subjection. ...

11/18/2020

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT - "ARCHIVES AND RELATING TODAY" TALK IS RECORDED. THANK YOU Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery

ARCHIVE MACHINES LAMAGLearnArchives and Relating Today TalkSaturday, October 24 at 1 PM The ongoing quarantine has prompted reconsiderations of the archive, of its relation to online media, and the way in which histories are told. In this conversation, learn more about how some Los Angeles-based ins...

05/22/2020

opacity (n.)
BY
ART PAPERS

"One of the enduring contributions of Martinican philosopher and poet Édouard Glissant was his insistence on a “right to opacity for everyone.” In formulating opacity as a response to the Western, imperialist demand to know and understand the Other, Glissant designated opacity as a resource for navigating the optics of discovery, exposure, and enlightenment."

TY Gabrielle Civil

opacity (n.) Text / Christopher Joseph Lee Share: 1. Opacity describes a lack of transparency and translucence; or somewhat more figuratively, a lack of intelligibility or knowability. Opacity is a state, medium, or space through which light cannot pass. A white wall is opaque, as is a mirror, as is...

04/24/2020

THANK YOU Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB) for PUBLISHING THE CONVERSATION BETWEEN JOSHUA SIMON AND Ben Ratskoff OF THAT HAPPENED AT LACA IN NOVEMBER. CATCH THEIR CONVERSATION ABOUT THEIR CURATORIAL PRACTICES, COMMUNIST HORIZONS AND POST SOVIET DEPRESSION.